EDUCATION - DADS and MOMS University
DADS of Michigan
and MOMS of Michigan
is sponsoring several programs to help families navigate
through family court, parent children, maintain peace
and avoid conflict, and stay connected with their children.
The DADS and MOMS University of responsible education
is for teenage, divorced, unmarried parents, grandparents,
step parents, and children of divorce or separation.
This educational curriculum employs several unique features
designed to either directly or indirectly benefit nearly
2 million men, women, grandparents and step parents,
and just under one-half million children each year in
Michigan.
Dads and Moms University Programs - this education wheel describes the education offerings of DMU.
EDUCATION OFFERINGS - DADS and MOMS University
The programs provided at this link are offered and may be scheduled through DADS and Moms University.
Parenting Wisely
http://www.familyworksinc.com/about/index.html
Parenting Wisely (PW) is a parenting skills education system. The PW programs are designed to facilitate the learning of necessary skills for the healthy NFIll-balanced raising of children from age 3 to 18. Proven to reduce problem behaviors and increase communication and family unity, PW offers NFIll documented and tested programs that guarantee results.
Available in either CD-ROM or online formats, PW’s interactive format encourages maximum skill retention. Parents choose from nine different video enactments of typical family struggles, from teenagers playing loud music to trouble in school and more. After viewing the conflict, users must choose from a list of options representing different levels of effectiveness.
National Fatherhood Initiative
http://www.fatherhood.org/
In order to help organizations succeed, NFI offers a variety of capacity-building events - workshops, trainings, and webinars.
By working with local, state and national organizations across the country, NFI has a unique strategy to "go where the dads are," reaching fathers at their point of need with skill building resources to help them be the best dads that they can be.
Our wide variety of resources - brochures, curricula, facilitator guides, and CD ROMS, are used by a wide variety of non-profit and for-profit organizations in all 50 states in what NFI call our six key sectors:
- Community-Based: Organizations that are the backbone of our local and state communities, including YMCAs, schools, Head Starts, family resource centers, and others
- Healthcare: Hospitals, pregnancy resource centers, parenting centers, and other places that ensure the health of children and their families
- Military: All branches of the military are using NFI resources, in the United States and overseas
- Corrections: NFI programming is used in pre-release centers, long stay facilities, youth programs, and prison ministries in all 50 states
- Christian: Both churches and para-church organizations and ministries utilize NFI resources to equip fathers and strengthen families
- Work-Family Balance: NFI consults with a variety of Fortune 500 companies, including Verizon, IBM, KPMG, BP, Pacific Life and Blue Cross and Blue Shield to mention a few
Marriage Savers - The Community Marriage Policy
http://www.marriagesavers.org/
Marriage Savers has developed a proven strategy to slash divorce and cohabitation rates, and to raise the marriage rate. We have helped the clergy of 220 cities and towns (by December, 2007) to adopt a Community Marriage Policy® with the goal to "radically reduce the divorce rate in area churches," as Modesto, CA pastors put it in the first covenant in 1986. Clergy join together across denominational and racial lines and sign a public covenant on the courthouse steps to make healthy marriages a priority in their congregations. Specifically, in Community Marriage Policies®, religious leaders pledge to train Mentor Couples to help other couples at every stage of the marital life cycle to achieve five great goals.
Retrouvaille Program?
http://www.retrouvaille.org/
The word Retrouvaille™ (pronounced re-tro-vi with a long i.) is a French word meaning rediscovery. The program offers tools needed to rediscover a loving marriage relationship. Thousands of couples headed for cold, unloving relationships or divorce have successfully overcome their marriage problems by attending the program.
The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.
It is not a retreat, marriage counseling, marriage self help or a sensitivity group. There are neither group dynamics nor group discussions on the weekend. It is not a time for hurting; it is a time for healing.
It is for couples with marital problems including those who are considering marriage separation and those who are already separated or divorced that want marriage help. |
